Point 2 and 3 are found under the Genealogy tab in your account, and can be accessed by clicking Manage Personal Information.

Project administrators can assist you with entering the information.

Fill in info on direct paternal and maternal lines – read more below

Upload a GEDCOM

See our pages for how to create a GEDCOM if you do not have one already, and continue with the other steps in the meantime.

The GEDCOM is visible to:

All your matches

Project Administrators of your projects

Most Distant Ancestors

The ideal form of “Most Distant Ancestor” information for Norwegian paternal and maternal lines: We need full name: given names, patronymic, farm name/surname, birth year, and place/county. If you do not add place here, the Public results lists for Y-DNA and mtDNA will not show them, thus becoming less useful for both the project and your matches.

Fill in information about direct paternal and maternal lines

Format

See examples below, and do not use the format listed as example under the name field.

Do not waste space on commas, “about”, “born” or “and”. Add only birth year if known, death year only if birth year is not known.

NOTE the required format of all names including farm name, year, place and county – further examples below

Note that we will slightly edit the information to fit this format if the details are already known through the map function or a GEDCOM.

For privacy: Only the names of the most distant ancestor is shown, not your own name.

Direct Paternal

Your direct paternal ancestor is your father’s father’s father’s father, as far back as you know. We need the information for the earliest known man in this line. Use the earliest known name and place, where he was from.

Examples from the public results list:

Hallvard Persson Alme c 1691-1757 Åmot HED

Tore Trondsson Tynnøl b1530 Lesja OPL

Jon Knutsson Årset b1664 Geiranger MRO

For Swedish ancestors you write the county (län) code letter in parenthesis:

If you have no information in this field, your Y-DNA results will be listed under: “Ancestry information missing, PLEASE fill in – will be grouped after info is entered”

Direct Maternal

Your direct maternal ancestor is always a woman – your mother’s mother’s mother’s mother, as far back as you know through women only. We need the information for the earliest known woman in this line. Use the earliest known name and place, where she was from.

Examples from the public results list:

Anna Roarsdt Totland b c1660 Moster HRD

Tora Jakobsdotter Kvåle b c 1660 Skjåk OPL

Anne Knutsdt Holt c 1690-1763 Stordal MRO

For Swedish ancestors you write the county (län) code letter in parenthesis: